Publications

2025

Elliot R., Koirala B., Rüdisüli M., Eggimann S. (under submission/review): Emission-responsive charging of electric cars and carsharing to improve the security of supply.

Eggimann S. (2025): Deprioritising cars beyond rerouting: Future research directions of the Barcelona Superblock. Cities, 157, 105609. doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2024.105609

2024

Eggimann S. (2024): Potential Superblock sites for selected cities in the United States. Zotero data set. doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12667315

Stevanovic S., Eggimann S. (2024): Schwammstadt und Superblock - neue Ansätze für die Umgestaltung von Quartieren. Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Forstwesen, 175 (5), 250–255. doi.org/10.3188/szf.2024.0250

Eggimann S., Fiorentini, M. (2024): Transferring energy signatures across space and time to validate their use for rapid urban heating and cooling energy demand estimation. Energy and Buildings, 114348. doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2024.114348

2023

Vulic N, Eggimann S., Sulzer M., Orehounig K. (2023): National building stock model for evaluating the impact of different retrofit measures. CISBAT - The built environment in transition, doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/2600/3/032004

Eggimann S., Vivian J., Fiorentini M. (2023): Heating and cooling European buildings with lakes? Europhysics News, 54, 3, 16–19. doi.org/10.1051/epn/2023301

Chaudry M., Jayasuriya L., Hall J.W., Jenkins H., Eyre N., Eggimann S. (2023): Simulating flexibility, variability and decentralisation with an integrated energy system model for Great Britain. Scientific Reports, 13, 4772. doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-31257-9

Eggimann S., Vivian J., Chen R., Orehounig K., Patt A., Fiorentini M. (2023): The potential of lake-source district heating and cooling for European buildings. Energy Conversion and Management, 283, 116914. doi.org/10.1016/j.enconman.2023.116914

Eggimann S., Mutschler R., Orehounig K., Fiorentini M. (2023): Climate change shifts the trade-off between lower cooling and higher heating demand from daylight saving time in office buildings. Environmental Research Letters, 18, 024001. doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/acb0e3

Rüdisüli M, Teske S.L., Sidler D., van den Heuvel D., Diamond L.W., Mutschler R., Orehounig K., Eggimann S. (2023): Potential of renewable surplus electricity for power-to-gas and geo-methanation in Switzerland. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 48, 14527–14542. doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2022.12.290

2022

Perera A.T.D., Khayatian F., Eggimann S., Orehounig K., Halgamuge S. (2022): Machine learning to quantify the propagation of climate-induced uncertainties in energy systems Applied Energy, 328, 120169. doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2022.120169

Orehounig K., Fierz L., Allan J., Eggimann S., Vulic N., Bojarski A. (2022): CESAR-P: A dynamic urban building energy simulation tool. Journal of Open Source Software, 7(78), 4261. doi.org/10.1038/s41893-022-00855-2

Allan J., Eggimann S., Wagner M., Ho Y.N., Züger M., Schneider U., Orehounig K. (2022): Operational and embodied emissions associated with urban neighbourhood densification strategies. Energy and Buildings, 276, 112482. doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2022.112482

Eggimann S. (2022): The potential of implementing superblocks for multifunctional street use in cities Nature Sustainability, 5, 406–414. doi.org/10.1038/s41893-022-00855-2

Eggimann S. (2022): Expanding urban green space with superblocks. Land Use Policy, 117, 106111. doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2022.106111

Eggimann S., Vulic N., Rüdisüli M., Mutschler R, Orehounig K., Sulzer M. (2022): Bottom-up building stock clustering of Switzerland. Energy and Buildings, 111844. doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2022.111844

Rüdisüli M., Romano E., Eggimann S., Patel M.K. (2022): Greenhouse gas emissions in electricity: Assessing impacts of different decarbonization strategies. Energy Policy, 2022, 112794 doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2022.112794

Silva, R., Eggimann S., Fierz L., Orehounig K., Baldini L. (2022): Opportunities for passive cooling to mitigate the impact of climate change in Switzerland. Building and Environment, 208, 108574. doi.org/10.1016/j.buildenv.2021.108574

2021

Eggimann S., Lischer P., Bolliger J. (2021): Evaluating superblock design to enhance urban greening. Journal of Physics: Conference Proceedings. doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/2042/1/012005

Eggimann S., Wagner M., Ho Y.N., Züger M., Schneider U., Orehounig K. (2021): Geospatial simulation of sustainable urban densification potentials. Sustainable Cities and Society, 72, 103068. doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2021.103068

Mutschler, R., Rüdisüli, M., Heer, P., Eggimann S. (2021): Benchmarking cooling and heating energy demands with respect to climate change, population growth and device uptake. Applied Energy, 288, 116636. doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2021.116636

2020

Zorn C., Koks E., Eggimann S. (2020): Demand side management to improve electricity network resilience. ArXiv Pre-Print. http://arxiv.org/abs/2008.04954

Eggimann S., Wagner M., Chen T., Yoo N.H., Schneider U., Orehounig K. (2020): Sustainable urban densification potentials: a geospatial analysis of Swiss post-war neighbourhoods. IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, 588, 1.01 – 1.05. doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/588/2/022040

Eggimann S., Usher W., Eyre N., Hall J.W. (2020): How weather affects energy demand variability in the transition towards sustainable heating. Energy, 195C, 116947. doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2020.116947

2019

Moy de Vitry M., Schneider M.Y., Wani O., Manny L., Leitão J., Eggimann S. (2019): Smart urban water systems: What could possibly go wrong? Environmental Research Letters, 14(8), 081001. doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab3761

Moy de Vitry M., Schneider M.Y., Wani O., Manny L., Leitão J., Eggimann S. (2019): A high-resolution spatio-temporal energy demand simulation to explore the potential of heating demand side management with largescale heat pump diffusion. Applied Energy, 236, 997-1010. doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2018.12.052

2018

Eggimann S., Truffer B., Feldmann U., Maurer M. (2018): Screening European market potentials for small modular wastewater treatment systems – an inroad to sustainability transitions in urban water management? Land Use Policy, 78, 711–725. doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2018.07.031

2017

Eggimann S., Mutzner L., Wani O., Schneider M., Moy de Vitry M., Beutler P., Maurer M. (2017): The Potential of Knowing More: A Review of Data-Driven Urban Water Management. Land Use Policy, 51 (5), 2538–2553. doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.6b04267

2016

Eggimann S., Truffer B., Maurer M. (2016): The cost of hybrid waste water systems: a systematic framework for specifying minimum cost-connection rates. Water Reserach, 103, 472–484. doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2016.07.062

Eggimann S., Truffer B., Maurer M. (2016): Economies of density for on-site waste water treatment. Water Reserach, 101, 476–489. doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2016.06.011

2015

Eggimann S., Truffer B., Maurer M. (2015): To connect or not to connect? Modelling the optimal degree of centralisation for wastewater infrastructures. Water Reserach, 84, 218–231. doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2015.07.004

Thesis

Eggimann S. (2016): The optimal degree of centralisation for wastewater infrastructures. A model-based geospatial economic analysis. Doctoral Thesis. ETH Zurich, Switzerland. doi.org/10.3929/ethz-a-010811248

Eggimann S. (2013): Potential for a sustainability transition of decentralised wastewater systems for Switzerland on the level of urban structural units. Master Thesis. University of Zürich, Switzerland. Link

Reports

Barbey Horvath J., Delacrétaz Y., Eggimann S. (2024): Urbane Strassenraumnutzung in der Schweiz. Explorative Studie zu verschiedenen Instrumenten mit Fokus auf den Superblock. Städtekonferenz Mobilität (eds.), Bern, Schweiz. Link en | fr

Vulic N., Eggimann S., Orehounig K., Sulzer M. (2022): Erst sortieren, dann sanieren. Die Auswirkung verschiedener Sanierungsstrategien auf den Energieverbrauch von Schweizer Wohngebäuden Konferenz Kantonaler Energiefachstellen (EnFK) (eds.)

VSE, EBP, Empa (eds.) (2022): Energieversorgung der Schweiz bis 2050. Bern, Switzerland. Link

Eggimann S., Allan J., Wagner M., Ho Y.N., Züger M., Schneider U., Orehounig K. (2021): Urban densification and its impact on energy use in Swiss cities. Final Report. Bern, Switzerland. Link

Other contributions in specialist journals and outlets

Bulletin (2025): Preisgünstigeres Laden erhöht CO2-Emissionen. Januar 2025. Link

Aqua & Gas (2023): Heizen und Kühlen mit Seewasser? November 2023 Link

Bulletin (2023): Stromsparen bei Eingpässen koordinieren. May 2023. Link

Verband Schweizerischer Elektrizitätsunternehmen (2023): Koordiniertes Energiesparen in Haushalten. 30.1.2023. Link

SpringerNature (2022): Transforming cities with superblocks. Link

Verband Schweizerischer Elektrizitätsunternehmen (2021): Wird Kühlen das neue Heizen? Bulletin, 30.08.2021. Link

N+L Inside (2021): «Grau zu Grün»: Analyse zum Transformationspotential des Strassenraums in der Stadt Zürich. Link

ETH Blog (2021): Keeping it cool in Switzerland: Keeping it cool in Switzerland: The critical impact of air-conditioning uptake. Link

Global Infrastructure Hub (2020): Re-thinking wastewater infrastructure in times of crisis and rapid urbanisation. Link

Press

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Talks

Grants and awards